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Workers' Theater and "Proletarian Culture" in Prerevolutionary Russia, 1905-1917

Workers' Theater and "Proletarian Culture" in Prerevolutionary Russia, 1905-1917 . ?Dpsars 1790 ra?ts.E. ANTHONY SWIFT (Colchester, UK) WORKERS' THEATER AND "PROLETARIAN CULTURE" IN PRE- REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, 1905-1917* Amateur workers' theaters became an important part of a larger movement by Russian workers to establish networks of alternative cultural and educa- tional institutions during the years between the revolutions of 1905 and February 1917. The proletarian cultural and educational movement, or Pro- letkul't, has received much attention from students of the early Soviet period, but its roots in the pre-revolutionary workers' movement have been largely neglected.l In explaining the origins of Proletkul't, scholars have focused on Aleksandr Bogdanov's theory of proletarian culmm elaborated in the decade prior to 1917. Bogdanov and: his followers held that social revolution was impossible without a corresponding cnltnrnl rcynlution?To?pepa?tb?cul– tural revolution, workers would have to develop their own proletarian culture to contest the hegemony of bourgeois culture. Guided by the revolutionary in- telligentsia, an elite of worker-intellectuals would lay the foundations of a new, distinctly proletarian culture by creating their own science, philosophy and art based on class values,5... , . i.. I.. * Research for this article was supported in part by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), with funds http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Workers' Theater and "Proletarian Culture" in Prerevolutionary Russia, 1905-1917

Swift, E. Anthony
Russian History , Volume 23 (1-4): 29 – Jan 1, 1996
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. ?Dpsars 1790 ra?ts.E. ANTHONY SWIFT (Colchester, UK) WORKERS' THEATER AND "PROLETARIAN CULTURE" IN PRE- REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, 1905-1917* Amateur workers' theaters became an important part of a larger movement by Russian workers to establish networks of alternative cultural and educa- tional institutions during the years between the revolutions of 1905 and February 1917. The proletarian cultural and educational movement, or Pro- letkul't, has received much attention from students of the early Soviet period, but its roots in the pre-revolutionary workers' movement have been largely neglected.l In explaining the origins of Proletkul't, scholars have focused on Aleksandr Bogdanov's theory of proletarian culmm elaborated in the decade prior to 1917. Bogdanov and: his followers held that social revolution was impossible without a corresponding cnltnrnl rcynlution?To?pepa?tb?cul– tural revolution, workers would have to develop their own proletarian culture to contest the hegemony of bourgeois culture. Guided by the revolutionary in- telligentsia, an elite of worker-intellectuals would lay the foundations of a new, distinctly proletarian culture by creating their own science, philosophy and art based on class values,5... , . i.. I.. * Research for this article was supported in part by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), with funds

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